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- run 10.56 km in 52:53
legs tired from yesterday. didn't check watch at all, hit easy 5:00 pace. finally managed to run a loop route from home without planning it (rather than an out and back). means i'm starting to get oriented here.

- stretch

oh man i love greg nuckols, had forgotten about him. thanks for posting this.

I haven't trained for the last couple of days. I went to a wedding today and it would have been easy to slip up with the offer of free beers available but I just drank coke and ate a lot of food instead.

 

fair enough, that does not sound like a recipe for saturday morning success. sunday morning's probably out for me since my partner gets back from india at like 7 AM. next time, inshallah.

- run 13.04 km in 1:06:38
middle ~5.5km with joe. really beautiful weather for a run.

- stretch

damn nice. lots of quality sessions ever since the move.

yeah, i've been feeling pretty good the last few weeks (knock wood). the shin thing from last week seems to have been nothing. just signed up for a race on 23 november on what's apparently a super flat course. that's the target now. i might do one or two before then as well but without tapering, just to practice racing and push myself in competition a bit. for example was thinking to do one of the local parkruns this saturday (see previous post about taxing the old legs a little extra this weekend).

tonight

- run 10.09 km in 50:24
turned right out the front door rather than left tonight just to try something different. it was really crowded and lots of road crossings so pace was all over the place, but averaged 5:00 and felt absolutely breezy. this route was uphill first then downhill, which is the opposite of when i run down past the olympic park and to the canals, so final 2km were extra quick with no added effort.

EDIT: gukl and joe, y'all wanna do the hackney marshes parkrun on saturday morning?

SMO-LOV JU-NIOR! SMO-LOV JU-NIOR!

Agree to all of the above.
The slippery slope is : how will you ever enjoy the sports marathons when you know they are an inferior... how to call it... 'venue'?
It will still be , say, Mo Farah today, running alone far ahead from the 2nd probably, finishing at 2'08'' or something. You will be watching the exact same thing with Kipchoge, a guy running alone trying to bet his best, but knowing his best can never come close to the 'lab' one,
Imagine the same thing spreading. A perfect conditions 9:3x 100m. Who will sit to watch 10'' races again after that. Competition is great and all, but the real adrenaline spike is when you check the clock to see if they WRed. Where are we going if this is taken away from us?
Not saying it is happening, but yes , worried that this might have been the start of it.
Also all those thoughts don't subtract even the slightest percentage of my owe and admiration of Kipchoge's accomplishment, which goes far beyond a timed running section.

i don't know, i guess i disagree with what's compelling about watching sports. i don't watch sports expecting the WR to be broken every time, i watch to see people at the absolute limit of human ability trying to outdo each other. it's thrilling when records are broken, of course, but a photo finish is just as (maybe even more) exciting IMO. there's no comparison between kipchoge running 1:59 and him setting the WR in a race against other people who are also trying to run as hard as they can and beat him.